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The Goulandris Museum of Natural History is a museum in Kifisia, a northeastern suburb of Athens, Greece. It was founded by Angelos Goulandris and Niki Goulandris in 1965 in order to promote interest in the natural sciences, to raise the awareness of the public, in general, and in particular to call its attention to the need to protect Greece's natural wildlife habitats and species in the danger of extinction. The museum includes large collections of insects, mammals, birds, reptiles, shells, rocks, minerals and fossils, from the rich natural wildlife of the Greek territory. The botanical collections number over 200.000 species of plants, among which there are 145 newly discovered ones, which have been recorded thanks to the museum's research. The kernel of the botanical collection was formed when it acquired the collection of Constantine Goulimis, the author of Wild Flowers of Greece that was illustrated by Niki Goulandris. In the museum's laboratories, scientific research is being carried out in the areas of ecology, botany, zoology, geology, palaeontology and biotechnology. In the exhibition rooms are presented in detail the variety and interdependence of the biocommunities and the floral, animal and geological wealth of Greece. The Goulandris Museum of Natural History also functions as a complementary educational institution for all levels of education. Its activities include further education programmes, seminars, lectures, the publication of books and other material, and itinerant exhibitions on crucial environmental issues in Greece and abroad. Its publications include a scientific journal, the Annales Musei Goulandris (1973–). The Museum is linked to international organizations and to Institutes of Higher Education. Some of the most important exhibits of the museum are the Zoology Room, the Palaeontology Room and the display of bivalve molluscs from various parts of the world. In 2010, rhizomes of Iris hellenica (found in the mountains of the Peloponnese) were given the garden of the Goulandris Natural History Museum, who had funded Dionysios Mermygkas, to study the plants of the mountains. The iris grew well vegetatively for a year, but failed to flower. Unfortunately they did not survive the following year, but they survived in Copenhagen (who also received rhizomes).

Drossinis Museum is in the center of Kifisia, a northern suburb of Athens, and it is housed in “Amaryllis” villa, where Georgios Drossinis lived in his last years and which is named after a central character of one of his earliest and most popular works. The museum was founded in 1997 with the aim to preserve and promote Drossinis’ (1859-1951) multidimensional work. Drossinis, along with Costis Palamas and Nikos Kampas co-founded the New Athenian School, the Greek literary ‘1880s Generation’, a movement which renewed Greek literature and fought for the establishment of modern Greek language ("Demotic") The museum includes three halls, which are on the first floor, while the ground floor houses the Municipal Library of Kifisia, according to Drossinis's wish.

Kifissia (Greek: Κηφισιά, Kifisia) is an Athens metro station in Kifisia, Athens, Greece. It is the northern terminus of the line 1. The station is situated at 25.655 km from the starting point in Piraeus. The station was opened on 10 August 1957 and was renovated in 2004. On the site of the current Athens Metro station, there was a station of the former Lavriou Square-Strofyli railway line at 15.500 km from Lavriou Square. It opened on 4 February 1885 and shut down on 8 August 1938.

The International School of Athens (ISA) is an independent and an International Baccalaureate (IB) School. ISA, formerly TASIS, a privately held school located in Kifissia, a suburb of Athens, Greece.

The Strofyli station (Greek: Σταθμός Στροφυλίου Stathmos Strofyliou) was a station of the Attica Rail in Kifisia, North Athens, Attica, Greece. It was the northern terminus of the Lavrion Square-Strofyli railway, at 16.5 km from the southern terminus at Plateia Lavriou, in central Athens. The station was opened after 1900, and it closed in 1938. The station was also the starting point of a metre gauge freight railway to a quarry at Dionysos.

Kifissia or Kifisia (also Kephisia or Cephissia; Greek: Κηφισιά, pronounced [cifiˈsça]) is a municipality and one of the most affluent northern suburbs in the Athens agglomeration, Attica, Greece, mainly accessed via Kifissias Avenue, running all the way from central Athens up to Theseos Avenue in the suburb of Nea Erythraia. It has traditionally been home to rich Greek families and major Greek political families.

Nea Erythraia (Greek: Νέα Ερυθραία) is a town and a suburb in the northeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. It was settled by Greek refugees from Erythraia (now Cesme, Turkey) after the 1923 Population Exchange. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kifissia, of which it is a municipal unit.

North Athens (Greek: Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Attica. The regional unit covers the northeast-central part of the agglomeration of Athens.

KAT Attica General Hospital (Greek: Γενικό Νοσοκομείο Αττικής ΚΑΤ) also known as KAT Hospital, is a tertiary-level hospital in the Attica region of Greece. It is located in Kifisia, a northern suburban of Athens. It was formerly known as the "Apostolos Pavlos" Accident Hospital.

Cephisia or Kephisia (Ancient Greek: Κηφισιά) was a deme of ancient Attica, of the phyle of Erechtheis, sending six or eight delegates to the Athenian Boule.Strabo states that Cephisia was one of the twelve original cities of Attica founded by the mythical king of Athens Cecrops II and one of cities Theseus would later unite in the city-state of Athens. Cephisia had become a famous retreat of philosophers during the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, when the wealthy Herodes Atticus of Marathon built the Villa Cephisia. In his Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius describes the unique ambiance of intellectual ferment and aristocratic leisure in an idyllic setting which he created there. It was also the practice of Herodes to provide free instruction in philosophy for selected youths from Athens.

KAT (Greek: ΚΑΤ) is an Athens metro station in Kifissia, Athens, Greece, next to the Traumatic Recovery Center (KAT), from which it derives its name. The station is situated 24.631 km from the starting point in Piraeus. The station was opened on 27 March 1989 and was renovated in 2004. It contains two platforms.

Pefki (Greek: Πεύκη, pronounced [ˈpefci], meaning "pine", before 1959: Μαγκουφάνα - Magkoufana, [maɡuˈfana]) is a town and a suburb in the northeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lykovrysi-Pefki, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit., it is part of North Athens regional unit. According to the 2021 population census, Pefki has 17,353 residents.